Did the co-pilot have to hang his head out the side window and give directions to the pilot.
Co-pilot:right Larry right! Your other right Larry!
Did the co-pilot have to hang his head out the side window and give directions to the pilot.
Co-pilot:right Larry right! Your other right Larry!
Wow those pilots had some good stories for later in the bar!
“My seatbelt is pulling against my waist keeping me in my seat.”
Seatbelts fully functional?: CHECK!
All kidding aside I’m glad everyone is ok.....aside from their underwear. *snicker*
What do you make of this?
“Is there an emotional support hamster onboard!?”
““The radar data is different than you get from Weather Channel or the Weather Service,” he told the Washington Post. “What you have in the cockpit has a much shorter wavelength. They don’t get the full picture, just the front end.””
Wundermap on Weather Underground is only 5 min. delay from actual time. Could not the flight crew have a tablet online to check the radar “full picture”?
Bang Ding Ow’s revenge!
Yikes.
Seems like a classic case of Clear Air turbulance.
No, I am not a travel expert, but a OCD lifetime reader, and I just had the good fortune of recently reading the most enjoyable book of my life (I hate the word "best" when expressing an opinion,) in terms of learning many facts I had never learned before related to flying. I had a good start, having earned my Student licence a long time ago--- then I got married.
The name of the book is The Electra Story : The Dramatic History of Aviation's Most Controversial Airliner, by Robert J. Serling, 1963.
I do not mean to hijack the thread, but this is a rare opportunity to question passenger aircraft pilots, both ex-military and civilians, who I've seen post on this forum.
By way of background, I offer this little factoid:
"...the closest thing we've seen to the number we're after—18 percent of Americans said they had never flown in their life, meaning that 82 percent had. By 2009, the amount of people who flew a commercial airliner in the previous year had risen to 39.85 percent in the Omnibus Household Survey.Jan 6, 2016...", my impression is that today most Americans have not flown commercial.
A large portion of that book discusses what is called "an obscure (unknown) theory of physics that could "tear an airliner apart" in seconds.
To ultimately solve the mystery of the series of accidents, another issue plays a major role.
There is a long known phenomenon along the westerly slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, known as the Sierra Wave, which unfortunately covers a distance from Lake Tahoe south. But the specific location that Lockheed repeatedly visited ultimately to solve the mystery of primary cause is never mentioned in the book.
Where is the exact location along the Sierras where the Wave was visited while testing proposed "cause and fixes" for the multiple Lockheed Electra accidents?
That is my question.
Hundreds of the best engineers from every airline manufacturer (including Lockheed's competitors) volunteered to join the search for the answer, and there must be a few still alive, or the CAB/FAA records must be, to provide an answer.
I apologize for the long post, but there is no brief way to summarize the mystery and its solution.
Best detective story, fact or fiction, that I have ever read, including both the writing and the editing.
“This is WZAZ, in Chicago, where Disco lives forever!” *cut transmission*
With modern weather radar, there really is no excuse for this by the pilots or by the controllers. Some serious case of ‘get-there-itis’ could have gotten a lot of passengers killed.